Author Archive for David Marx

David Marx is a digital photography instructor whose engaging teaching style inspires photographers of all skill levels. David is an Adobe Certified Photoshop and Photoshop Lightroom Expert. David has led Adobe Photoshop / Photoshop Lightroom seminars and digital photography field workshops for The Rocky Mountain School of Photography, FirstLight Workshops, The American Society of Media Photographers, and the world-renowned Blackberry Farm Resort. To learn more about David's software seminars and field photography workshops, please visit www.davidmarx.com.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is a powerful, professional-grade image management and enhancement tool but teaching yourself Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is not easy. These four-day Lightroom workshops—offered in select cities across the U.S. in 2013—are your ticket to easier, calmer, and more effective days working with images on your computer.

My search for the right social media platform for my photography has lead me to Google+. In my opinion, Google+ is now the best place on the web for photographers to share their work, to connect with other artists, and to learn new techniques. Here are a series of video tutorials on how to connect Adobe Photoshop Lightroom with Google+ via Jeffery Friedl’s “Export to PicassaWeb” Plugin.

The first full update for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 has just been released. This free update fixes some bugs and adds support for raw files for a host of new digital camera bodies but there is a lot more to this update. Hidden below the surface are some huge advances in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom’s Develop Module technology including a set of new color fringe repair tools and the ability to enhance 32-bit HDR images!

The Photographer’s Breakthrough is a a new workshop and online critique company centered around fostering personal artistic growth. This is an exciting opportunity to learn from some of my favorite photography instructors: Tony Rizzuto and Elizabeth Stone.

Mark S. Johnson’s most requested video tutorial series ever, Maximum Creativity with Filter Forge and Adobe Photoshop CS5, is available for immediate download! Featuring 16 indispensable video tutorials and more than 2 1/2 hours of instruction, this series will invigorate your creative juices.

You can use Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Beta’s new Book Module to create your own PDF “portfolio pieces” that combine images and words! This new feature is not a replacement for Adobe InDesign or a professional-grade page layout program, but it is a wonderful new way for me to share my photography with friends, students, and clients.

Each version of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom introduces exciting new tools for serious photographers and Lightroom 4 Beta is no different. This time, the software engineering team has introduced some new features and improved some old ones. This post demonstrates our favorite new features!

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Beta introduces an awesome new way to search and organize digital photographs. Photoshop Lightroom 4 Beta makes it easy to work with digital images and GPS data in the new Map Module.